ANTHOZOAN (anthozoa)

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: anthozoa   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does anthozoan mean? 

• ANTHOZOAN (noun)
  The noun ANTHOZOAN has 1 sense:

1. sessile marine coelenterates including solitary and colonial polyps; the medusoid phase is entirely suppressed

  Familiarity information: ANTHOZOAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANTHOZOAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Sessile marine coelenterates including solitary and colonial polyps; the medusoid phase is entirely suppressed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

actinozoan; anthozoan

Hypernyms ("anthozoan" is a kind of...):

cnidarian; coelenterate (radially symmetrical animals having saclike bodies with only one opening and tentacles with stinging structures; they occur in polyp and medusa forms)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "anthozoan"):

anemone; sea anemone (marine polyps that resemble flowers but have oral rings of tentacles; differ from corals in forming no hard skeleton)

sea pen (fleshy featherlike warm-water colonies)

coral (marine colonial polyp characterized by a calcareous skeleton; masses in a variety of shapes often forming reefs)

Holonyms ("anthozoan" is a member of...):

Actinozoa; Anthozoa; class Actinozoa; class Anthozoa (a large class of sedentary marine coelenterates that includes sea anemones and corals; the medusoid phase is entirely suppressed)